This is the Republican Party

[drboobay]

25% tariffs on all goods coming from those 3 countries on day 1 of his administration. Seems to have changed from what his Treasury Secretary said would be gradual increases of tariffs. Will find it interesting how he is going to come off this, and not seem like he is backing down. If he carries through with this he will have a lot more than 2 assassination attempts. I think he is just throwing #'s out there to get a reaction, and see what he can get away with.

He won't do that. Day one he will threaten our neighbors with the tariffs on such and such day if they don't play ball. I would bet on that.

 

[lawpoke87]

Load that magazine and put the gun up to your own head. That will show them!

This is so dumb.

Hopefully the leaders of Mexico and China are as naive and gullible as some of the posters on this board

 

[aTUfan]

Hopefully the leaders of Mexico and China are as naive and gullible as some of the posters on this board

reduce or cutoff the foreign aid we Give them.

 

[lawpoke87]

He won't do that. Day one he will threaten our neighbors with the tariffs on such and such day if they don't play ball. I would bet on that.

He actually threatened our neighbors 60 days prior to taking office. Why…. Because he has no interest in across the board tariffs He is using the threat as a means to get these countries to the table to negotiate. Will it work….yes, to some extent Probably should have been done sometime ago as these countries have shown little interest in working with the US on issues such as fentanyl

Finally, I assume the Trump people understand the inflationary pressures of tariffs I’m also assuming Janet Yellen will not be part of the economic discussion We will see some tariffs Most will be short term to gain a response from the targeted countries Others will likely be longer term to address Chinese goods coming in through Mexico via NAFTA.

Check back in six months to see if I’m correct

 

[Gmoney4WW]

Hopefully the leaders of Mexico and China are as naive and gullible as some of the posters on this board

Yeah, they don't even approach gullible. The problem is that Mexico's leaders are probably corrupt enough that it may not may matter.

 

[drboobay]

He actually threatened our neighbors 60 days prior to taking office. Why…. Because he has no interest in across the board tariffs He is using the threat as a means to get these countries to the table to negotiate. Will it work….yes, to some extent Probably should have been done sometime ago as these countries have shown little interest in working with the US on issues such as fentanyl

Finally, I assume the Trump people understand the inflationary pressures of tariffs I’m also assuming Janet Yellen will not be part of the economic discussion We will see some tariffs Most will be short term to gain a response from the targeted countries Others will likely be longer term to address Chinese goods coming in through Mexico via NAFTA.

Check back in six months to see if I’m correct

This is how I read it. "China, etc. I hereby impose x, y, z effective in 90 days if you don't do this."

 

[astonmartin708]

He actually threatened our neighbors 60 days prior to taking office. Why…. Because he has no interest in across the board tariffs He is using the threat as a means to get these countries to the table to negotiate. Will it work….yes, to some extent Probably should have been done sometime ago as these countries have shown little interest in working with the US on issues such as fentanyl

Finally, I assume the Trump people understand the inflationary pressures of tariffs I’m also assuming Janet Yellen will not be part of the economic discussion We will see some tariffs Most will be short term to gain a response from the targeted countries Others will likely be longer term to address Chinese goods coming in through Mexico via NAFTA.

Check back in six months to see if I’m correct

Still waiting for Mexico to pay for that wall.....